7.13.2008

Internal Test Case

As I continue my Obama-like slide toward the center, and wonder if I don't like the rhetoric of revolution but rather prefer the functionality of, well, skewed functionality (because otherwise it's hopeless romanticism), I also appear to have lost my YouTube ears. No one I've shown this to thinks it's funny. So in defiance of them, and last-ditch affirmation of self, I'm posting it here for you all to decide. Especially since no one's found those requested clips for me to watch yet.

Expect a unified theory of Anthony Randolph in the next few days, which will try and make sense of my recent introspection.

WAIT. PURPLE drink! dave chappelle told me about how much black people love purple drink. and the white guy says he's only been drinking 40's. Ok i guess i sort of get that it's all a joke, but still. weirddddd.

ok ONE MORE THING. i went to the youtube site of that video to read the comments. and someone left this gem, "i use to smoke blunts with rajon back when he was in lexington when he played ball wit Ky." obviously it might not be true. but it's fun to think about.

For those who don't know, the stuff is called Drank. I have no idea where they're selling it, and the website is like, barely up and running. You can watch flash videos of poorly known Houston rappers, but you can't buy the beverage. It's basically sizzurp with herbal stuff in place of the pharmaceuticals.

I think this is funny, but only because I think anything associated with Drank is funny.

Back in my Bushwick hipster days I used to room with a 40 year old grifter who escaped to Chicago owing money to every painter, musician, actor and clothes designer in the building. We all believed he was 27 as he kept his head shaved and put lotion on every inch of his skin in the morning. He kept fit by balling and serially standing in friendly apartments swaying in a cross between MC grandstanding and Scotty Pippin dribbling. Now he can start buying Purple to supplement his youthifying ritual.